SUMMERTIME was David Lean's most intelligent film and his most beautiful. Even Lean thought so. It eschews both the dry (as in dried-out) wit of his Noel Coward films and the self-congratulatory cynicism of his epics and has neither the tastefully "realistic" (as opposed to real) art direction of his early films nor the confusion of grandeur and grand idea of his 70mm images.
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
December 12, 2008